Oakton is practically next door to our Fairfax office, and the care here is built around busy, thoughtful lives. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care in English and Tiếng Việt, in person in Fairfax or by secure video.
Book an Appointment →Oakton sits just up Route 123 from our office: professional families, federal workers, and retirees who value privacy and substance over flash. Being minutes away means in-person care is genuinely convenient here, whether it is a first evaluation, ongoing medication management, or care for a parent who prefers speaking Vietnamese.
Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC grew up between two worlds, Vietnamese at home and American everywhere else. She provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy fully in Vietnamese or English, with no interpreter needed. When it helps, parents and family members can join the conversation, so care feels clearer and more comfortable for everyone involved. Khám và tư vấn hoàn toàn bằng tiếng Việt.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive is about a five-to-ten-minute drive from Oakton, with free on-site parking, and every service is also available by secure video anywhere in Virginia. Most major insurances are accepted, including Medicare and Medicaid, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Psychiatric care in Vietnamese, from evaluation through ongoing treatment, with family welcome in the conversation. Learn more →
The worry that will not switch off and the sadness that will not lift are medical conditions, not character flaws, and both are very treatable.
Two cultures, one set of shoulders. The stress of living between worlds is a legitimate clinical concern, and it gets genuine understanding here.
ADHD in adults is real, common, and frequently missed, especially in women. Thorough evaluation and full treatment options are available.
Oakton is a place where people tend to be doing well on paper. Careers are demanding, schools are competitive, and the ambient expectation is that you are managing. That environment produces a particular kind of patient: someone who is functioning, delivering, and quietly running on empty.
This is where a lot of people talk themselves out of care. The reasoning goes that they still get up, still perform, still hold everything together, so whatever this is cannot be serious enough to warrant an appointment. Meanwhile the sleep is bad, the fuse is short, the enjoyment is gone, and every task takes twice the effort it used to.
High-functioning anxiety and depression are not milder conditions. They are conditions in people with more capacity to absorb them, which mostly means they go untreated longer and cost more by the time anyone looks. The bar for an evaluation is not that your life has fallen apart. The bar is that something has been off long enough that you have started planning around it.
An evaluation is a conversation, not a commitment. Sometimes the answer is a treatable condition. Sometimes it is that you are carrying too much and the honest fix is not medical. Either answer is more useful than continuing to guess.
Staying busy works until it stops working. Perfectionism and overwork are common ways anxiety hides in plain sight.
They overlap heavily and are genuinely hard to tell apart from the inside. The distinction matters, because it changes what helps. Burnout →
Common in people who coasted on ability through school and hit a wall when the demands outgrew the compensating. Learn more →
Video visits from your own home, and a small practice rather than a busy clinic. Nobody is in a waiting room.
Yes, entirely. Alice conducts evaluations and follow-up visits in fluent Tiếng Việt, and welcomes family participation.
Alice sees adults 18 to 65, including parents who prefer Vietnamese. First visits for hesitant elders are unhurried by design.
Yes to most major plans, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid. Full details live on the Rates page.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 is about a five-to-ten-minute drive from Oakton, with free parking. Telehealth visits are also available anywhere in Virginia.
No. Functioning is not the threshold. Plenty of people meet every obligation while sleeping badly, enjoying nothing, and running on reserves. Being able to push through is a sign of capacity, not a sign that nothing is wrong.
Often you cannot tell from the inside, which is a large part of why an evaluation helps. Burnout tends to lift with genuine distance from the source. Depression tends to follow you into the vacation. The distinction changes what actually treats it.
In person in Fairfax or by video. English & Tiếng Việt. Board-certified PMHNP.
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Many people searching for a psychiatrist in Oakton end up here, so it is worth being clear about who you would be seeing. Alice Tran is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC), not a psychiatrist. For outpatient care in Virginia that distinction matters less than most people expect: she evaluates and diagnoses mental health conditions, prescribes and manages psychiatric medication including ADHD medication, and provides supportive therapy.
The practical differences tend to favor the patient. Psychiatrist offices in this area commonly quote waits of one to three months and many do not take insurance. This practice usually sees new patients within one to two weeks, accepts most major plans including Medicare and Medicaid, and gives every new patient a full 60 minute first appointment. Alice also trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who brings over 50 years of clinical experience.
Want the full comparison? Read what a PMHNP is or how a PMHNP and a psychiatrist differ in Virginia.